#Media140 Keynote Speaker Pat Kane wants everyone to know that Hue & Cry are still very active. Check them out here!
Apologies for delay - but seriously, there was so very much stuff to sift through and I am taking this job - with my semi-official, ill-fitting, Media140 crew tee shirt on - very seriously indeed. Perversely, as I burned the midnight oil, reading everyone's post #media140 thoughts, I realised that my plight was insanely symptomatic of our new(ish) digital media landscape: information overload. It's many years now, since I sat "copy-tasting" downtable at Reuters (how anachronistic does this vocabulary sound already?) and even then, I never had to cope with this volume of material.
Personally, I have no solutions yet - but it did make me wonder how I might go about teaching my students how best to filter? In my experience, it is both highly subjective & somehow extremely instinctive. Can news sense ever be taught? Answers on a postcard please!
As promised yesterday, a selection of utterly unscientifically selected posts and pull-togethers. I don't need to teach you guys how to use a search engine - although during the course of all my rather unscientific if very enthusiastic research, I did come across a couple of (hithertofore unknown to this benighted Luddite and) rather cool tools: http://twithority.com/ and the slick http://tweetmeme.com/ from Media140's very own @nickhalstead! The Google News Feed was also pretty impressive.
One salient point of feedback from Wednesday's event at Iris Digital was the calibre of the panellists and moderators and at least two of them found time to post their own thoughts. For Journalism.co.uk, Laura Oliver did a series of thoughtful pieces; I particularly liked her piece on Pat Kane & newspaper pay walls. Read it here.
Kevin Anderson also gave a great presentation and then wrote more than one perceptive pull-together for TechGuardian.
Another nice piece which spoke to me was "The 13 most important conclusions on Twitter" on thenextwomen.com. Hartelijk gefeliciteerd, Simone! There was another interesting overview here from editorsweblog.com (although getting BBC Pesto's name wrong as P-R-eston irritated. One thing I always tell the kids: the slightest typo or most trivial factual error will inevitably and always undermine your authority).
At the Broadsight blog, Broadstuff, @freecloud fleshed out his notes from the day with his usual accurate analysis. This is also worth reading for the series of apposite comments it attracted.
Another keen analysis of the frontline journalism panel came from the cerebral Daniel Bennet for the Frontline. When you get a moment, check out all the amazing Frontline bloggers; there is bound to be one for you! They also include one from @fieldreports whose extraordinary presentation at Media140 drew possibly the longest applause and apres-show kudos.
We were extremely lucky to have so many experts live-blogging and tweeting, among them @adders who also took some of the best shots of the day, including my personal favourite of @joannageary and @Documentally. Naturally, I am still too much of a Luddite to be able to upload and display it here, despite Adam graciously giving me his permission but you can check it out, along with the rest of the Flickr group here.
Another live-blogger who did a great job was the Telegraph's @kate_day. Kate first wowed me with her minute-by-minute coverage of the London Marathon - perfect for those of us who would have been there if only our ageing knees had allowed. The link to her post-event think piece entitled "Truth vs Speed" was re-tweeted again and again. It includes an audio clip of my heroine of the day Gerry Jackson of SW Radio Africa and a great pic of the day's acknowledged most entertaining agent provocateur @billt.
Please keep constructive post-event criticism coming, either to me @deejackson or to Media140 guru @dailytwitter.
